The brothers of El Celler de Can Roca have given a speech in defense of sustainability at the UN

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The brothers of El Celler de Can Roca became yesterday in the first goodwill ambassadors of the United Nations within the program of support of sustainable development, with an eye toward 2030 and the ambitious goal of helping to eradicate hunger world. “World leaders have become aware of the need to set dates and begin a program in which we will be advisors on matters of feeding, work on specific projects, starting with Nigeria, with a program to improve the process of growing, processing and food preservation. The problems of poor conservation are poor because in places spoiling the food runs out. ” Aware that there is much work to be done and happy to contribute their grain of sand, the largest of the Roca brothers explained the importance of the challenge presented to them shortly before traveling to New York. “We are fortunate to have the equipment of the farmhouse and entities with whom we collaborate and, as Irta and the Alicia Foundation.”

Josep Roca has been asked to deliver, on behalf of the three brothers, the speech in which he talked about cooking, tradition, creativity, commitment, sustainability and justice, which has followed a panel discussion on sustainability . “We come from a family history from a humble place. The memories of our childhood know immigration, poverty and discrimination; the bar of our fathers has been a lesson of generosity, hospitality and solidarity. Our youth odors emanating from pots, pans and steaming pots of recipes totem. We lived the food as essential to our lives. ”

Importance of food

The kitchen, explained in his talk was “our life, livelihood, entertainment, dialogue, creativity, emotion and memory of our ancestors.” The brothers have remembered that what we eat “affects our health, it affects our economy and affects our planet” and told that when they knew the intention of the United Nations to initiate a new era of cooperation with the developing new targets for Sustainable Development (ODS) clearly saw the great opportunity for ambitious proposal. “We live the most extraordinary moment of the kitchen. Representing countries, identities, cultures, promotion, expansion, sample territory. It is an opportunity that from our side we should take advantage of cooks: from the kitchen Adopt a code of ethics and responsibility back to society what society gives us. ” The chefs, they said, are clear about the role of cook with consciousness. “We know the role that we live in the kitchen is specious. The group of cooks is leading with great honesty. The ethical horizon of gastronomy expands from the focal point of light recognition toward the stool of the famine and the most basic needs in this joint venture we started with the United Nations, we are ambassadors also of all chefs “.

Girona brothers have pledged to bring creativity, commitment, honesty, responsibility, honesty, respect, friendship, tolerance, learning, achievement and solidarity. “We want to be active in promoting change in direction that our society needs: culinary research in the service of poverty, because the service of intuition; so creative that calculable; power in the service of love; service having to be. ”

Defense preserving ancient seeds

In his speech also they expressed concern over the neglect of native crops and neglect of culinary traditions, which attributed the generation of poverty and exclusion and have located the introduction of new crop varieties as the most important cause of this massive loss diversity of native species and seeds. “Diversity is not only under attack monocultures, but also of monopolies. Industrial agriculture promotes the use of monocultures by their need to maintain centralized control over production and distribution of food “control. From the kitchen of diversity, they wanted to appeal to the defense of the conservation of ancient seeds and the fight for monopolies on seeds and industrialized food systems do not proliferate unabated. “It may be a chimera, but not overflow the us this dream. The food industry, from production to distribution, consumption and conservation, should not be a threat to sustainability, but a source of sustainable development. ”

The brothers explained that participate in culinary training programs, establishing a network of training centers intended to inject dynamism, inclusion and sustainability in the food industry. “Participating in initiatives to promote environmental awareness, reducing crop residues and trying to improve market conditions for farmers and small agricultural enterprises.” Josep Roca posed the challenge of achieving socially just and environmentally sustainable economically inclusive food chain to ensure access to food for all people and concluded with a commitment to help fight for the rights of people in need. “We will defend the true ecological democracy and environmental justice. The goal for the next 30 years must be to build and cook for a more egalitarian society. ”